I found a picture on the web. Mine looked just like this. From what I found on the web, the same box was sold with several names. There is one on Ebay called "Tiger Mark Ten."
I sold my nearly finished project car, a 1973 Dodge Challenger when I left Florida. Same ignition system, probably made by Motorola.
My first car was a 1949 Plymouth. The factory radio (Motorola) had about 10 tubes and pumped out about 8 watts from a pair of 6V6GT's. I wired a "portable" Panasonic cassette player through it......at least it was LOUD! It's the same car I put the Mark Ten into when I changed it from 6 volt positive ground, to 12 volt negative ground.
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Sigh. After the '74 Satellite, I found and bought a '73 Road Runner - with the optional 340 4-bbl engine - which had led a rough life. I had to sell it when I moved to BC.
Mine wasn't "nearly finished" because the more expensive parts for a restoration always stayed just out of reach financially, their cost rising as my income went up over the years. But I put a lot of hours of my life into that car, and rebuilt or upgraded most of the fun parts - brakes, steering, suspension, transmission.
The Mopar electronic ignition supposedly had a weakness, the ballast resistor, which the Chevy magazines claimed would fail frequently. I carried a spare in the glove box all the years I had the car, but never needed to use it. Maybe the Chevy mags weren't exactly being impartial when it came to Mopars!
I once saw one of those factory tube/valve radios, this time for a Pontiac, I think. I was amazed at how compact it was, multiple glass bottles spaced barely a quarter inch apart. Nothing like the way Fender Corp builds their guitar amps.
-Gnobuddy
I'm sure the plastic plants are part of your patented treble dispersion control mechanism, right?
In the guitar amp world, you can spend $20 for a plastic disc that you place in front of your speaker, to block the ear-piercing treble beaming straight out of it. The doohickey is called a "beam blocker": 12" Beam Blocker (4" Dome)
I'm sure you could accomplish exactly the same thing with a small $1 plastic bowl from the dollar store, and maybe a $1 plastic ruler to mount it with. But a cheap bowl doesn't have the macho name and street cred of the "beam blocker"!
-Gnobuddy
I'm sure the plastic plants are part of your patented treble dispersion control mechanism, right?
In the guitar amp world, you can spend $20 for a plastic disc that you place in front of your speaker, to block the ear-piercing treble beaming straight out of it. The doohickey is called a "beam blocker": 12" Beam Blocker (4" Dome)
I'm sure you could accomplish exactly the same thing with a small $1 plastic bowl from the dollar store, and maybe a $1 plastic ruler to mount it with. But a cheap bowl doesn't have the macho name and street cred of the "beam blocker"!
-Gnobuddy
I have not intentionally applied plants to that method but nice multi purpose tip there
. I am building a few hardwood/MDF dispersion panels like this larger 5 1/2' intended for front wall between mains. I am trying some large by large I mean xtra tall TL bipoles's atm. Im wondering if the panel will help or hinder being what they are. They are fun to play with and make huge bass but I'll be returning to DR at some point. Maybe I'll keep the bipoles around and put together another multi channel setup.Attachments
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Very cool! True-life McGyver stories are so much more fun than the silly stuff script-writers come up with! Maybe we should have another thread on these?
I have a very similar story to yours, except it involved a fan relay in my wife's Mercury Tracer, which failed on us when we were visiting a nearby city. We found out when the car began to overheat, and I found the fan stationary.
Luckily for us, she had some beading supplies in the trunk - including a small roll of stiff copper wire. Out with the relay, in with a short piece of strategically shaped copper wire, on came the fan, and we made it home!
That was a truly horrible car, with lousy Ford quality built-in all over, unfortunately. But that's another story.
Back on topic, I have been working on a guitar amp project for well over a year. Some of the delays were forced by my work schedule, but some of it was just the same ADD-like behaviour we discussed earlier in this thread. Well, as of last night, I think I can close the chapter on the clean channel of the preamp - it's as good as I can make it, so I shall declare it done, and move on! (The "dirt" channel is next.)
-Gnobuddy
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When I was a teenager, our family drove to visit the grandparents, about a 2 hour trip. On the way home I was driving the family car when it started raining a lot. Unfortunately the car needed new wiper blades. The driver's side was shuddering across the glass so badly it was basically useless; I couldn't see a thing. Suddenly I was visited by the spirit of MacGyver. I pulled into a parking lot, jumped out in the rain, removed the blade & flipped it 180 degrees, reinstalled it - problem solved. My big sister still talks about that one. Of course we can't do stuff like that anymore with the 1-piece wiper/ blade sets they're foisting upon us nowadays, but that's a rant for another forum.
Back to projects: The SACD ripper is making progress, but hasn't been powered up yet. I did finally finish installing a cycling computer that's been sitting in the box for a couple of weeks, only to discover what a cheap piece of crap it really is. About to go for a ride & see if it actually works...
-- Jim
Of course we can't do stuff like that anymore with the 1-piece wiper/ blade sets they're foisting upon us nowadays, but that's a rant for another forum.Back to projects: The SACD ripper is making progress, but hasn't been powered up yet. I did finally finish installing a cycling computer that's been sitting in the box for a couple of weeks, only to discover what a cheap piece of crap it really is.
About to go for a ride & see if it actually works...-- Jim
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